# Quote — Jack Vance, The Star King

> Deeming the unsubstantiated dogma of a localized religious cult to be an undignified and unsuitable base on which to erect the chronology of galactic man, the members of this convention hereby declare that time shall now be reckoned from the year 2000 A.D. (Old System), which becomes the year 0. The revolution of Earth about Sol remains the standard annual unit.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Star King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king.md)
- Page: 73
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Star_King_(1964)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/deeming-the-unsubstantiated

## More from this book

> “Beauty comes in often to drink. A spaceman, he claims himself, but as to this I can’t be certain. I have often declared myself a great lover. All of us lie, as much or more than necessary. ‘What is truth?’ asks Pons Pilatus, in the fable, and I answer: ‘A commodity as cheap as air which we hide as if it were as precious as yewl stone.’”

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/beauty-comes-in-often.md)

> Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which detractors of the Institute scornfully paraphrase to: Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/motto-of-the.md)

> “Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/everyone-is-the.md)